Re: flowcharts

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
11. Using a mult-thousand dollar program to draw flowcharts was certainly overkill but its what I had. Many diciplines use flowcharts where psudocode would be inapropriate. Usually, they describe decision trees and workflow. Computer programmers may think them old-fashioned but they are very wor

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-22 Thread mvdeventer
> Call me old-fashioned, but why not just use some paper? As mentioned > before, flowcharts make poor documentation anyway, and paper is very > convenient, especially if you're erasing and redrawing a lot. > > You could enter the final design in an appropriate program, if so &

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:41:18AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Anthony Howe > > Sent: 18 May 2007 07:00 PM > > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: flowch

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-21 Thread mvdeventer
> -Original Message- > From: Edd Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 May 2007 09:03 AM > To: Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu; OpenBSD general usage list > Subject: Re: flowcharts > > Hi, > > On 21/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-21 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 21/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like I said to someone else off list. Maybe flowcharts are not needed, but I have a lecturer who believes in them and wants me to use them I my assignments. So for a while I am simply forced to use the. Have you looked in

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-20 Thread mvdeventer
> By all means experiment with flowcharts, but be prepared to move on: I Like I said to someone else off list. Maybe flowcharts are not needed, but I have a lecturer who believes in them and wants me to use them I my assignments. So for a while I am simply forced to use the. > if your code

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-20 Thread mvdeventer
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Anthony Howe > Sent: 18 May 2007 07:00 PM > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: flowcharts > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks to those that responded. I have a few id

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread Steve Fairhead
e I am attending) limited to JavaScript and pseudocode. << By all means experiment with flowcharts, but be prepared to move on: I haven't used flowcharts in nearly 30 years, and there are good reasons. First, they teach you nothing about good structure - it's too easy to draw spag

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread Anthony Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to those that responded. I have a few ideas. Once i figure out how to add arrowheads, QCad may be just the thing. I got the idea from Douglas' xfig idea. Thanks man. OpenOffice's Draw program can do Visio like flowcharts. -- Anthony C Howe

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread mvdeventer
01 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: OT: flowcharts Hi all I have an OT question for you guys. Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio and Dia but they fall

Re: OT: flowcharts

2007-05-17 Thread Jeffrey C. Ollie
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 13:02 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > If you _really_ want actual flow-charts, I just use Xfig or a piece of > paper. Inkscape also has been getting some features useful for flowcharts in recent releases. Jeff [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type ap

Re: OT: flowcharts

2007-05-17 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:01:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an OT question for you guys. > Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? > I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far > used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio

OT: flowcharts

2007-05-15 Thread mvdeventer
Hi all I have an OT question for you guys. Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio and Dia but they fall short for me. My code choices are (due to the